Maximize QuickBooks: Excel Analysis Part 2


CPE Credit: 2 hours

In this comprehensive presentation—Part 2 of Maximize QuickBooks: Excel Analysis—Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, shows you how to flatten multiple column reports, such as a Profit & Loss By Class report, back into a list format so you can analyze your data further using pivot tables, slicers, and other tools. David explains how Excel 2016 users can visually present a summary Profit & Loss report in chart form by way of the Waterfall Chart feature, and he explains ways users of earlier versions of Excel can clean up their QuickBooks reports.
 
David demonstrates every technique at least twice: first, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps, and second, in Excel 2016. He draws your attention to any differences in Excel 2013, 2010, or 2007 during the presentation as well as in his detailed handouts. David also provides an Excel workbook that includes most of the examples used in the course. 


Topics Covered

• Mapping sales by city in Excel 2013 and later with Bing Maps.
• Understanding how to manage the Protected View prompt in Excel 2010 and later.
• Using Slicers in Excel 2013 and later to filter data within reports exported to Excel from QuickBooks.
• Streamlining the process of building Waterfall charts from QuickBooks Online Profit & Loss reports by way of the SUMIF function.
• Exporting customer contact lists from QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop.
• Flattening the Profit & Loss by Class report to unlock the data for analysis by way of pivot tables, filtering, and other tools in Excel.
• Filtering transactions from QuickBooks reports by date in any version of Excel.
• Utilizing the Timeline feature in Excel 2013 and later to filter pivot tables based on date ranges.
• Choosing the most analysis-ready report format from QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online.

Learning Objectives:

• Define the ideal data for use with creating pivot table reports.
• Recall how to apply Trace Dependents and Trace Precedents while auditing formulas.
• State which versions of Excel offer the Timeline feature.

Course Number: 
DR1935
NASBA Field of Study: 
Computer Software and Applications
Level: 
Intermediate
Presenter:
David Ringstrom
Prerequisites: 
Practitioners who have completed Maximize QuickBooks: Excel Analysis Part 1 or have comparable experience with QuickBooks and Excel.
Advanced Preparation: 
None